Weirdly enough, there was a catagory of foods called "subtlety" in medieval times, and included *were* sweets that resembled meat, or offal. The recipes still exist. I was kind of guilty of, "Ooooo, roast as cake! Nice subtlety!!!"

I thought the first one was sushi when I saw it in the small size. Runny, rotten sushi. The raw meat one was amazingly accurate and revolting, but the bug made me heave. EWWWW! Who in their right mind....???

Ewwwww!! Love the meat platter cake. I had that green one for dinner last night. I think it's supposed to be one of those flank steak pinwheels - steak rolled up with feta cheese, pine nuts and spinach. It looked better last night as an actual meat product...

The bottom left and bottom right items in the third picture interest me. It looks like a pile of grilled meats, but then you look at those two...I see a muffin (with the paper still attached) and a cinnamon bun. And both have grill marks on them. And judging by the white lines around the middles, they were also both cut in half, slathered with cream cheese and put back together like a bagel.

I managed to avoid snatching up a piece of cake while shopping yesterday, and thanks to your Better Dieting through Cake I'll be able to avoid doing the same for the rest of the week. Perhaps the rest of next week, too. And, yes, I'm actually on a diet. It'll be easy making this week's goal...

I can't imagine what celebration would call for a red jelly filled heart cake? Are people crazy? Are they trying to gross out their guests? Seriously? Keep up the good work - I have several pounds to lose!

For the poster that saw a muffin and a cinnamon bun in that "meat" one ... I had to look closely (you're welcome) and I do believe the "muffin" is a filet mignon complete with the wrapping of bacon, and the "cinnamon bun" is a beef pinwheel stuffed with spinach and cheese. I have eaten both of these in their real form, but thank God never as a cake.

So am I the only one who wasn't thoroughly grossed out by all of that? I'm not sure I would want to actually eat any of them, but I for one am still looking forward to dinner.Oh, and the "eat your heart out" comment made me laugh. :)

I have an ironclad alibi for not being aroused by these specimens...it is that I also have an ironclad stomach. BUT, I'm really worrying about the big-hearted cake being able to survive! See, it hasn't got all of its parts-(!)- barely seems to be getting by (!), with just its superior vena cava hanging out. I don't like having to ventricle my anguish this way, but ...but...it's making me crazy!Why, aorta....!=^>.<^=

The only cake that really looks disgusting to me is the first one with the melting frosting carrots. Yeck! However the meat cake, while oddly colored (they all have grill marks but are bright red? Don't think so!) is actually pretty accurately depicted, and the heart cake is just awesome detail-wise.

wv. Aloaftiz, the first sentence I'll say when I get to Hawaii to visit my friend Ftiz. Aloaftiz!

Been reading for a while, but this is my first time commenting. I felt compelled to let you know the pile 'o meat cake reduced me to a snorting, crying blob. I really, particularly liked the streaky marching poo.

Even with the babies-popping-out-of and body parts cakes, this was the first one where I felt my face move involuntarily into a terrible position. I only imagine it was like some sort of cartoon character-esque face of disgust.

All right, so these cakes aren't your regular rectangular sheet cakes... So what's wrong with that? Aside from the first one, which looks rather old and past its prime, I see nothing wrong with decorators making cakes that suit the demands of the client! What better cake to give to a cardiologist (or... someone that really enjoys eating hearts ;-)) than a realistic replica of a blood-pumping muscle? I say GOOD JOB to all the decorators that think outside the rectangular-shaped sheet cake box! :-)

Oh... my... God. I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit. Any lingering feelings I had about converting fully to vegetarianism have definitely gone. The lamb-shank-looking wreck is the worst, it looks like it has parasites burrowing out from under the skin.

WV: brance. As in, I had to brance myself after I saw some of these wrecks.

Ok I have a question- is there some way these cakes are verified to know if they really are cakes made by "professionals" and meant to be sold? The heart cake and insect cake look like some poor inexperienced shmuck made them for someone they know. Not that they are any less horrible, but people who don't work for bakeries make ugly cakes all the time. The irony that some of these cakes are so horrible and yet are supposed to have been made by professionals is what makes them funny.

Finally, a post that doesn't make me crave cupcakes (though the CCC's do their level best) and other baked goods! I'll just look at those slabs of lox/severed tongues every time I feel the need to visit that bakery down the street with organic... local... apple... turnovers.... *checks post again* *dry heaves* I'm good!

Actually, I remember that cake with all the steaks being posted on a vegetarian community I'm on, and it was actually made by a vegetarian who worked in some bakery and had that as an order! Go figure!!! :-D

Okay, normally, I am a big fan of meat. Hamburgers, hot dogs- when my family barbeques, I pig out. Also, nothing really grosses me out. Bloody knee? Whatever (although I'm not that big a fan of pain). Frog dissection? Okay, sure whatever. Open-heart surgery on TV? Cool, I'll watch it. My point is, it takes a lot to gross me out. Now I'm not sure, but these cakes have come the closest ever to gross me out. I was hungry and thinking of a cheeseburger twenty seconds ago. Now I've lowered my standards to a salad. And it's getting lower.

Jen, instead of a cake wrecks book, you should have made it a diet cake. You would have made a lot more money, especially if you sold it in Hollywood. Plenty of stars would be talking about it. And models. (Now for those of you accusing me of hating on models and stars, I don't mean to insult. I'm just saying: a few of those people destroy's all the others' images. Thank you.)-Madison

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